Representation of the Subaltern in Aahuti’sDalan

Abstract

The issue of representation of the subalternis one of the vibrant discourses in the academia in general and in the South Asian context in particular. During the colonial period, the subaltern groups of people were oppressed in such a way that these marginalized groups of people are out of the history as voiceless and historyless groups of people. The colonial and nationalist bourgeois historiographies never gave any space to them to speak and exist as an autonomous agent of the history. But with the call of the new times, the voices of the voicelessgroups of people have been documented in the literary cultures. The influence of the subaltern studies have been felt in the Nepali literary culture as well including the visual culture, though Nepal was never colonized but it was never been free from thesemi-colonial and semi- feudal hegemony. Aahuti’sDalanis one of the examples of documenting the history and stories of the historyless and voiceless groups of people of Nepal, the Dalits in particular. This tele-serial is one of the best example of the visual culture that has documented a realistic picture of the long been suppressed groups of people of Nepali historiography.